Analysis Of A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

The book I have really enjoyed reading in the past year is “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah which is a story that has been making me want to not only read more, but also dig deeper into the subject. This amazing memoir was written in a first person perspective of being a soldier as a boy in the war of Sierra Leone. Ishmael’s writing style draws my attention because of its order of the story, emotional appeals and imagery.

A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah.This book is nothing more then about a destiny, a journey that we don’t see everyday, readers could call Ishmael's life a miracle.this book was published in 2007, New York by Sarah Crichton Books.

A Long Way Gone is a true story about the life of Ishmael beah, a young boy who became a child soldier in Sierra Leone. When Ishmael was away performing with his friends, his village was tragically attacked by rebels. Left with nothing the group travels between villages for months with the rebels right behind them the whole time. To scared to fight.

“Things will change rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything” (Beah p.29). Long way gone is about the life of Ishmael Beah in which he experienced difficult tasks during a civil war and how it reshaped his life. “One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life” (Beah p.69) I recommend reading this book because it is based on real life events, it captures your attention and gives you a life lesson.

The war was between the rebels and the government of Sierra Leone and they both gruesomely tortured and killed their enemies. Both the rebels and the government’s troops recruited young boys to take part in the war and Ishmael was one of the many boys who was forced to become a child soldier. Ishmael has been a victim of war, but he has also been a victimizer. At unusual moments, war interrupts Ishmaels life and finds him no matter where he is. As Ishmael

Ishmael Beah, A survivor     Wilma Rudolph, a famous track and field Olympic runner and book writer once said, “Never underestimate the power of dream and the influence of hum spirits. We are all the same nation: The potential of greatness lives in within each of us.” The novel a long way gone memoirs of a Boy Soldier, an autobiography written by Ishmael Beah, tells a story about himself and the life he was forced to live as a boy soldier. He tells us how he was brainwashed and how his anger was influencing him to kill.

Every person in the world goes through some life changing events, whether they are small or big. These changes shape a person's personality. Many life changing events are explained in Ishmael Beah’s book, A Long Way Gone. In the book he goes through many changes throughout his childhood. The story starts during a time in Sierra Leone where rebels are causing terror supposedly trying to make the government “better”. When really they seem to be causing more chaos than help. Ishmael Beah goes through some very life changing events throughout his journey, he manages to get out of these changes but they only seem to make his life worse. Losing the people that mattered most in his life, getting enlisted into the army, and becoming a part of a new

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a nonfiction story that describes Ishmael Beah’s trauma and recovery. This remarkable story shows the struggles of becoming a boy soldier and the effects of joining the war. Throughout his journey, he experienced many different emotions in many different situations. One important continuation in this story is his value as a family. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone, family and friends are stable before the war and show loving relationships giving him comfort and emotional security, during the war he is in need of family and comfort after unpleasant experiences, and after the war, revisits old childhood memories and what family is and should be.

In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah, a soldier with the Sierra Leone army during its civil war, has many life changing events that he has to live with forever. Ishmael is taken far away from his childhood dreams when an unexpected civil war breaks out in his hometown. Ishmael had a loss of innocence when he was younger which caused him to become what he became. Ishmael was a young boy who was introduced to war at 12 years old. He lost friends and experienced the horrific results from the rebels attacks.

In the poem “The Past” by Ha Jin, the narrator in the poem talks about his past. In the first stanza, he talks about how he accepted his past whether it was good or bad. His past is basically a part of who he is but if his past is forgotten or thrown away then he would lose his identity.

Violence is a very common theme seen throughout the novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. The violence begins when a Civil War erupts in the country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah is forced to be a child soldier by refugees who take over his village. They come into his home town and kill many of the men, women and children who lived there.

In the introduction of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, he writes, “There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country” (Beah 1). During this statement Beah says that he is completely oblivious to the war around him. These people living in Sierra Leone had adapted to the war to the point where their perception had been altered. With this memoir he shares his experiences and obstacles he faces throughout the war to become a beckon of hope in this despairing country. Ishmael uses his social skills, timely luck, and emotional strength, to find the courage to overcome these adversities and survive in and out of the war.

Survival In the story A long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah has to face a lot of challenges at a young age in Sierra Leone. Not all children can grow up and live a care free life like others. Some have to get around some rough edges to survive or to become the person they want to be. For the boy Beah in the story he gets pulled from school just because his parents cannot afford to keep him in.

Ishmael Beah tells of the events of his youth and untimely loss of his childhood in his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. In this heart wrenching recollection of his childhood, Ishmael tells of how the war in Sierra Leone changed his life and took him from the life he led as a child growing up with his family, hobbies, love of music and mischief, and left him a wandering orphan and later, a brutal soldier who’s daily activities consisted of killing, burning and thievery. Surviving the fate that befell him required resorting to tactics that skewed the basis of reality. The basis of Beah’s existence was sustained on the fact that he and the other soldiers around him maintained a daily struggle of tug of war between their traumatized

In a Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah describes his life as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone Army and how it impacted his childhood. Ishmael’s small village was taken over and he was forced to join the army at the age of 12.